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Re:The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013) by res0nat0r on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:49PM (#28064010)
I worked at AWS years ago and we weren't getting paid anywhere near this, total compensation included. AWS is pretty known for being for being "thrifty", but you only got a relatively small amount of RSU's (back even before they were worth thousands of dollars like they are now), and you had to wait most of the 4 years for them to vest, since it was heavily weighted to the back-end of that time period, to entice you to stay with the company.
Re:The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013) by helen___keller on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:54PM (#28064075)
Agreed on the backloaded RSU schedule, but my understanding is that the signing bonus is supposed to help cover for that.

In any case, I know one person who accepted an offer with an AWS team recently making roughly what levels.fyi suggests (and not a 'golden child' either, someone coming in to learn a new skillset). My understanding is that Amazon is absolutely desperate for engineers right now.